Rifle-sight-lighting means.



PATENTED FEB. 25,1908.

. INO- 880,294.

C. W. GETCHELL. RIFLE SIGHT LIGHTING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.21, 1907.

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CHESTER w. GETCHELL, or WATERVILLE, MAINE, Assienon or ONE-HALF TOrealms,

WEBBER,- or WATERVIL-LE, MAINE- I nrrLa-sremr-Lren'rms mans.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Feb. 25, 1968.

Application filed Jflllimry 21. 1 07. Serial No. 253.321.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, CHESTER W. Geron- TELL, a citizenof the UnitedStates, residing at Waterville, in the county of Kennebec and State ofMaine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in RifleSight-Lighting Means; and I do declare the 'following to be a full,clear, and exact de" scription ofthe invention, such as will enable 1-0.

others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My inventionhas relation to new and use-- i'ul improvements in rillesight lighting means and has for its object the production of means forthrowing small rays of light on the sights of a rifle,-making itpossible to shoot with accuracy at dusk or at night.

1., Withj these ends in view, my invention fconslsts 1n the novelconstruction, combitrated in the drawings and set forth in the.specification and claims hereunto appended.

p In the accompanyingfdrawings, Figure 1 1s nation and arrangement ofparts as illusa side elevation of a rifle barrel provided with my sightlighting means; and Fig. 2

is a cross-sectional View on the line 2-2 of I Fig. 1.

My lnventionis described as follows: The numeral 1 represents a riflebarrel, and 2 the magazine. Standards 3, their lower parts eonforn'nngwlth said rifle barrel and magazine, and terminating below said magazinein vertical eXtcnsionsA are removably clamped to said barrel andmagazine immediatel opposite the rifle sights 5, by clam pextensions 4.

Suitable casings? provided a their upper ends with caps 8, of hard rubh:or like ma terial and having vertical perforations or openings 9 in'their lower ends centered on lines taken immediately in rear of therespective sights, are secured to the upper ends.

and inner faces of said standards. Each of said caps is provided on itsunder face with a bulb holder 10 and screwed or otherwise mg screwsGworlring through said verticalthelig'ht from the electric lights romblurring or blinding the eyes of a person when shooting the mile andowing to the opemn s Q'bemg centered on hnes'taken immediately ed tosaid in rear of: the sights, the light will be directed upon and forproperlyilluminating the sights.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire toseeureb Letters-Patent, is I In a device of the class" described and incombination with a rifle barrel having an we open sight, a sipiportcomprlsing gvppmref arms shaped to it upon opposite'sides of the barreland having lower terminal perforated i ears, a clamping screw threadedthrough said ears for clamping the support to t e' barrel, a'casingsecured between the upper ends of the arms in fixed position above thesight and having in its lower end an opening centered on alineperpendicularlyto the longitudinal axis on. the barrel and takenimmediatclyin rear of the sight, and a lamp "fixed in and whollyinclosed by the casing,

the light rays being projected through said opening in a direct path forilluminating the sight my hand in, presence of two subscribingwitnes'seay) CHESTER JGETC HELL.

Witnesses:

L. AHDA U'Y, 1 LENA SAUCIER.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

